Given it’s unclear promotion and utter lack of merchandising, Disney’s John Carter may well crash with a thud when it hits theaters March 9. That said, fans of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ sci-fi saga can still get a quality eyeful of Barsoom with Marvel’s John Carter: The Gods of Mars No. 1, a new limited series that debuts in March with the gorgeous art of Tale of Sand illustrator Ramón Pérez. Check out the images in the slideshow above and in high-res below.

In Gods of Mars, writer Sam Humphries takes Carter back to Mars/Barsoom to take on Martian gods, a tall task even for the otherworldly loincloth hero. Marvel collaborated with the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate for the five-issue limited series, which is based on the Burroughs’ novels and part of official John Carter canon. The cover art is by Julian Totino Tedesco.